The big heat
Blu-ray - 2025
Noir doesn't get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster's moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Film noir
Gangster films
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Detective and mystery films - Published
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[New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Blu-ray special edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as motion picture in 1953.
Special features: New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini ; new video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film ; audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich ; interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese ; trailer. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray, region A; uncompresssed PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
- ISBN
- 9798886072983
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